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By: Jackie Smith

Jackie Smith — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:02:05 +0000

I just want to say ‘Thank you’ for providing a platform that enables us to communicate, share and learn while we each try navigate the same path ahead of us
Jax xxx

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:48:46 +0000

This is my first time to stumbled upon your post and it is interested. I really like reading it, and looking forward for more from you.
Kaitlyn recently posted..Difficulty Getting Pregnant

By: Yenny

Yenny — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:06:29 +0000

Hi Rosetta,

I agree with what you had and is experiencing. People think that we should be ok by now but they don’t understand…..I fully agree with you. My husband passed away on 1st Jan 2010. And yes, he left me in good shape financially so I don’t have to worry about my remaining years but I contine working to keep my sanity and to stay focus so that my idle mind does not wonder about and drift into depression. I don’t like to join bunch of strangers like you do and I don’t want anyone else even though it’s very miserable being alone. But I believe we all can pull through it eventually.

By: Rosetta E. Sosi

Rosetta E. Sosi — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:21:07 +0000

I really look forward to reading your site. Until my sister told me about it, I felt so alone, and wondering how I’m supposed to feel after losing my husband. I went through 2 marriages until I found MR. RIGHT and we had 26 wonderful years together. He had several back surgeries, and open heart surgery, and was 10 years older than me, but that made no difference. He always felt bad that he couldn’t do alot of things that men should do–mow the grass, do heavy things, etc. but he took care of the paperwork, cooked when I was at work, etc. I always told him, that he could do what he could do , and I could do what I could do, but he always felt bad that I had to do yard work when I came home from working in a hot factory, but he didn’t understand that I didn’t have to worry about the bills, and making appointments for the cars to be worked on, getting something fixed around the house and things like that.
He passed away in May 2009, fell over in the kitchen before I was even out of bed. Instant heart attack. But we never went to bed without a kiss and an “I love you”, and those were my last words to him. Someone once told me never to go to bed mad at each other and I always believed that. I usually fell asleep in his arms, and the shock of finding him on the floor will never leave my head.
People think that I should be “over it” by now, but they don’t understand………………they have never gone through it, and I said I had the worst, and then I had the BEST, and I don’t want anyone else. No one could ever fill his shoes, nor would I want them to. Being alone is the worst part, and I can’t seem to get a grip on that. I don’t want to do anything because everyone that I know, has “someone”; I felt like the 5th wheel when I’d be with somebody, and I’d rather stay in the home that we shared and have my memories. Thank goodness I have 2 kids that took him as their father, and my daughter only lives a few blocks away, and lost her father 2 years before after a long fight with cancer, so she tries to console me saying that I wouldn’t want to see him laying in a bed, suffering and not knowing what was going on, which I wouldn’t; But I keep thinking-he would be HERE, I could talk to him, see him.
He left me in good shape financially, which was one of his main goals, that I would never have to go back to work, and for that I am grateful since I see so many women struggling to make ends meet, but the loneliness gets over bearing, and most of the people that I know, including my kids, think that I should be out doing things,and going places more. I am,and never was one to go with a bunch of strangers, like on a bus trip, etc. We did everything together, whether it was working on a project, doing dishes, going on vacation, and nothing is enjoyable without him.
I am so glad to read about other women feeling the same way, because in the beginning I thought something was the matter with ME. Now I know there are alot of others in my shoes, and I know that I must go on, but it must be on my terms; when I’m ready, I will know it. Your letters from other women are such a comfort to me, because there ARE people out there that understand, and that means so much.
Love to all of you that are “one of us”. With the support from each other, I know that we will all make it through this tough time—together. No matter how long it takes each one of us. Our lives will never be the same, but I know that my dear Louie would want me to go on and I will do my best to do that for him and for me. Thank you all for the wonderful words that I read from all of you.
Rose

By: Susan Collins

Susan Collins — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:19:00 +0000

I wonder how it must feel to look back on the road of your life to know that you have the respect and admiration of great people, simply by being exactly who you are. Congratulations – you earn the right to be succesfull at all you do because you have the magic formula!
Your fan
Susan Collins

By: Massy

Massy — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:52:18 +0000

Must feel great to read those great comments! You deserve it, awesome site Corinne

By: Sondra

Sondra — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:59:03 +0000

Corinne,
I read your book, Reflections of a Woman Alone, and loved it. I have it in my permanent library. You’re so right, as soon as a woman is unattached, she finds herself “back in the market” whether she wants to be or not.

Your fan,
Sondra